Gartner’s CFO Podcast

The 2024 Gartner CFO Conference Preview: Unlocking Enterprise Value

Episode Summary

CFOs are expected to create more enterprise value by transforming their roles and going beyond the finance function. This Gartner CFO Podcast episode offers a first look at the 2024 Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference, from demystifying AI to measuring cybersecurity’s risks and opportunities.

Episode Notes

Registration is now open for the Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference, Gartner’s flagship CFO event, on 20-21 May 2024 in National Harbor, Maryland. Reserve your space today.

Listen to this exclusive preview of the Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference, which helps organizations unlock enterprise value by transforming finance’s top roles:

• CFO: Mastering digital transformation. Measuring AI initiative risks and opportunities.
• Financial planning and analysis (FP&A): Modernizing data architecture. Creating business partnership influences.
• Controllers: Revamping governance models. Discovering the future of blockchain and accounting.
• VP of Finance Transformation: Building future organizational models. Evaluating consulting firms and business process outsourcing (BPOs).

Episode highlights: 

• The urgency behind the conference’s autonomous finance theme (1:25)
• The CFO role is expanding to AI initiatives and cybersecurity (6:29)
• FP&A skill sets for modernizing data architecture (9:25)
• Controllers are under serious pressure with governance models and automation (11:24)
• VPs of financial transformation must build future organizational models (13:02)
• Cutting through the AI hype with expert interactions (15:37)